Syrian National Army

The Syrian National Army is a coalition of Syrian Arab and Turkmen opposition groups that was formed by Turkey on 30 May 2017 with the goal of consolidating all pro-Turkish Syrian Opposition forces in northern Syria during the Syrian Civil War. The National Army opposed the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Islamic State, and the Syrian Arab Army, although the SNA forces rarely fought against the Syrian government. The Turkish-backed rebels opposed the notion of a Kurdish federal state in northern Syria, causing them to fight against the anti-ISIS Kurds in addition to ISIS itself, and many of them held moderate to right-wing Islamist views, unlike the secular Free Syrian Army factions in the southwest.